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Senate Roll Call 48, 108th Congress · March 12, 2003

To express the sense of the Senate concerning the decision of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

52 yea · 46 nayAmendment Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 5 nay
Republican8 yea · 41 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 3 ↗

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) A non-binding sense-of-the-Senate resolution on abortion is not a direct criminal justice policy measure.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (52)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (2)

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